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What I want to do in this video is reconcile the more traditional drake equation with the stuff that

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we derived or that we came up with. We kind of thought through it in the last several videos.

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So the more known drake equation is this: The number of detectable civilizations in the galaxy is equal

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to -- and they'll have this -- and this is not the number of stars in the galaxy -- this is the average

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rate of star formations per year in the galaxy.

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So ... let me write this down -- average rate of star formations -- which seems kind-of unintuitive, and it is, but hopefully we'll

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reconcile to show you that this and what we are going to show with the traditional drake equation are

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actually the same thing.